the clutching daggers // high plains home recordings

The Clutching Daggers is my latest band name. 

I will also be recording work this winter as high plains home recordings.

edit: I forgot to do this (30 Sept. 2023)

https://highplainshomerecordings.bandcamp.com/

New fuguers cove record -- A BALM FROM TROPICAL NATURE

52 minutes of Tropical Psych.


Think garage rock
Think reggae
Think punk rock
Think cumbia
Think Liberationist movements of Latin America
Think Echo-o-o-O-O-o-o-o

1 Tropicalia
2 Vampires
3 Magicians of the Sea
4 Honk Honk, I'm a Communist
5 Sun Circle
6 All Spice Dub
7 Rifles Out
8 Drumz/Black Walls
9 Longshoremen and their Rope Coils
10 Black Bear Dub
11 Nutmeg Boy
12 Army of Light
13 Yo Se Que
14 Cumbia de Los Fuguers
15 Mariners' Chant
16 Worm in the Beak
17 Blowdogs
18 Bead Necklace/Tropicalia (Reprise)

https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/a-balm-from-tropical-nature-lp-2021

#garagerock #tropicalvibes #dub #reggae #cumbia #rocknroll #rock #punk #riddim #communism

PRESS RELEASE April 12, 2021

PRESS RELEASE

April 12, 2021

Albuquerque indie rock stalwarts fuguers cove perform on the moon, release album about love in the post-apocalypse

Fresh off their one-off performance on the Earth’s lone lunar satellite, Albuquerque's fuguers cove release moon, a 14 track soft rock meditation on love & death.

fuguers cove is a one-man indie-garage-psych-punk project founded in 1995 by music weirdo & UNM professor Justin Bendell. Since 2015, fuguers cove has released 27 full length albums and E.Ps.

In Summer 2020, fuguers cove released its first live record, performs The Marshmen live on the fuckin' moon. This recording captures fuguers cove performing songs by doppelganger The Marshmen in an air-sealed bubble to several thousand moon people. To the uninitiated, The Marshmen are a Bendell rock project

that one writer referred to as “communist John Cougar Mellencamp.”

Moon, released on April 24, 2021, is a quieter affair. Written & recorded during the pandemic, this acoustic-centered record looks at love at mid-life and imagines what happens to love after death in the post-apocalypse.

If you would like to review either album, the links to the Bandcamp pages are below. I am happy to provide a free download link by request.

fuguers cove, performs The Marshmen live on the fuckin’ moon (2020)

https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/performs-the-marshmen-live-on-the-fuckin-moon-lp

fuguers cove’s moon (2021)

https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/moon-lp

Send all queries / interview requests to Justin at fuguers.cove@gmail.com

 This is a fun new song. Poppy as fuck (for me). Dig it. 

https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/track/in-your-van-clementine

Organizing Song Demos for A Three-Album Art-Rock Collage

WHERE THE SONGS ARE:

CURRENT SD 

FC 000

1 soft pretty dark (II. Table Saw; The Dredge?)

2 major rock americana (I. Bead Necklace; Untitled)

3 soft pretty dark (II. These & A Sparrow)

4 dark rnr (II. Executioner's Paradigm)

5 major rnr (III. Black Lung?)

FC 001

1 dub --> rock (II. you are the seasons; maybe refrain in I. Dub Interlude) (8 min)

2 roadtrip rockabilly (II. Set Your Caltrops)

FC 002

1 guitar & drums pretty into rock (III. All of Us, Here, Holding Hands)

2 drums & guitar indie rock (II. Rattle Softly The Cages, very jammy)

FC 003

1 fc rock song too slow tho -- rerecord (III. Onion Town) (6 min)

2 soft pretty msg in a bottle (I. Worm On the Beak)

3 soft pretty wooden floors (III. The Lake)

MOON 01

1 gbv rock song (I. Untitled or III. No Luck Motel)

2 building drums (I. Prelude to Black Walls)

3 rock song (I. Black Walls)

4 dark heavy waltz (I. Longshoreman & Their Rope Coils or II. The Dredge)

5 driving rock song (I. Sun Circle) 

FCM015

1 pretty pretty song 1 (III. Satellite) 

FCX01

1 pretty pretty song 2 better (III. Satellite)

FC M01

1 fun party drums no guitar (I. or II.)

2 cool slow rhythm no guitar (I. II.)

MCB4

1 cool thumping drum beat (II. Rattle The Cages?)

2 cool driving beat (I. Sun Circle)

FCM2

1 pretty dark waltzy (III. ???)

MOTS1

1 dance-y driving beat (I. Magicians of the Sea)

PREVIOUS SD

SONG 04

1 Great riff -- Keeper! (I)

FC10

1 Acoustic short & epic (Start III.)

2 Acoustic Feast of Wire (III.)

FC3 1

1 Good feedbacky ambiance (Start of II.)

2 Slow driving crunch (II. or nothing)

3 S-K / Nirvana song style (II.)

4 Trippy slow song (I. or nothing)

FC3 2 (1)

1 moody pine forest song (II. yes)

2 cool weirdo waltzy (interlude)

3 joe voss (not balm)

4 cool weirdo moody & almost country western (III. moon)

5 weirdo tropical pop - rock - pop (NOT BALM)

6 fc rock punk song (II.)

7 madison / folk explosion (III.)

8 fc super rock song (I.)

9 super pretty song (III.)

FC3 2 (2)

1 quiet drums rim taps not great 

2 other lazy drums whatevers

FC3 3 (1)

1 drums that sounds good 1

2 drums that sounds like pavement's our singer

3 drums that sounds like a dance pop song very nice

FC3 3 (2)

1 drums that sounds good 1

2 drums that sound good 2

3 drums that sound good 3

4 drums that sound good 4

FC3 7

all the songs from FC 3 8 but without drums

FC 3 8 

1 latin jazz song (I. Tropicana)

2 latin jazz song 2 (I. Interlude)

3 latin jazz song 3 (III. Tropicana Reprise)

4 acoustic fc (III. satellite? it sounds like twisted DMB)

5 nirvana pop fc (III. maybe)

6 madison / trinidad song (III. Bead Necklace? Other?)

7 heavy rock song (II.)

8 fun rock song (I. Blowdogs?)

Did I not share with you my trip to the fucking moon?

I released a "live" album at the end of August 2020. 

This recording captures The Marshmen's one & only live performance, in 2016, which took place on the Earth's one & only moon.

They were invited by the Moon Rock Brigade, who flew them out on a low-cost shuttle and housed them in the moon hostel.

The Marshmen played a sold out show in a bubble to several thousand screaming moon people.

It was an unforgettable experience. fuguers cove -- The Marshmen's surrogate & doppelganger -- was there to document (and perform) the whole thing.

https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/performs-the-marshmen-live-on-the-fuckin-moon

BLAST BEASTS debut EP

BLAST BEASTS live in the mountains and eat goats they steal from the US Air Force. BLAST BEASTS support the liberation of Palestine and the return of the Americas to its indigenous peoples.

Track list:

1. XXXXXQ 00:10
2. TEEEEEETH 00:14
3. LUNG 00:04
4. i-0-0-0-0-00-00 00:36
5. I HAVE NO ARMS 00:21
6. U THINK U CANT BUT YOU CAN 00:08
7. MOUTHFUL OF SAND 00:45




https://blastbeasts.bandcamp.com/album/blast-beasts

Hey nerds -- new rock 'n roll musix

Listen to some scruffy Justin music.

#songs #scruffy #rocknroll #bedroomrock #diy #lofi

https://fuguerscove1.bandcamp.com/album/execution-drone-ep